Nature Happenings

• Project Feeder Watch starts and extends until April, www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw

• Feeders get busier as the month progresses.

• Open water is important if there's an early freeze. Put out heated bird baths for a winter water source.

• American Goldfinches arrive in large numbers. Keep those finch feeders filled!

• Number and variety of wintering hummingbirds begins to build on Coast.

• Resident birds that may have left their home territory return for the winter.

• Waterfowl migration peaks this month.

• Franklin's Gulls pass through in large numbers on their way to wintering grounds of the coast of Chile.

• Common Loons and Bald Eagles arrive from the north.

• Northern Gannets arrive along the SE coast.

• Fall begins for most migratory waterfowl.

• The fall migratory population of the Sandhill Crane peaks in mid-November.

• Leonid meteor shower is mid-month.